AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Life On Land
KEYWORDS
technology, Drone, bees
COUNTRY
Japan
DESIGNED BY
Eijiro Miyako, chemist, from the team from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan
WEBSITE
http://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/downloads/pdf/spm_deliverable_3a_pollination_20170222.pdf
Gizmodo Pollinator Drone
Scientists Are Building Bee-Like Drones to Fight the Coming Bee-Pocalypse
The bees are dying globally at an alarming rate. As we continue to come to grips with the problems of our dystopian future, it’s probably as good a time as ever to dream up some solutions with an idea straight out of the dystopian show Black Mirror: pollinating drones. The team is not looking to replace natural pollinators, but to assist them in their pollination efforts. They think that in a future, when bee populations are lower, drones like these might be able to relieve the stress of having to do all of the pollination.